Slate Appoints Krohn Publisher

Updated July 22, 2002 5:33 p.m. ET

Slate magazine said it appointed veteran Cyrus Krohn as publisher. Mr. Krohn had been associate publisher at the online magazine, a unit of Redmond, Wash., software giant Microsoft Corp., since February 1999. Prior to his employment at Microsoft, Mr. Krohn produced programs for CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live. Slate named a new editor, Jacob Weisberg, in April.